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Friday, 7 July 2017

Ten of the Best #100

Yes, it's time. This will be my last Ten of the Best post. It's now or never, and I can't ever say never. So I'm bowing out, and reclaiming my Friday evenings. We're at 100 - that's quite a milestone.

100 weekly posts. That's just over two years' worth. That's a lot of Friday evenings.

It's been fun. The best part has been your comments, shares and feedback - especially when I'm a little late on a Saturday morning, and some of you start looking for me.

I'll keep blogging - book reviews have become a regular feature, and when I'm in the mood, I'll do a little writing. Just for fun.

Here's my first ever Ten - look at that! And most of the links still work - just had to update two of them. The scarf one seemed to have gone forever and then 25 google search pages later, voila! I found it. (Now do you understand why this takes so long?)

Let's get to this week's favourites....

Video #1 on the #GuptaLeaks. Lest we forget...

In other news, Bell Pottinger apologised. What do you think? Accepted? Twitter thinks not.

Elon Musk makes me proud to be a South African.

And in the USA, CNN exposes some bullying behaviour.

The 10 Life-Changing Books, plus some more, in case you've read all those.

And while we're on the topic of books - Clementinum in Prague is the most beautiful library in the world. Don't believe me? Take a look.

The best tampon commercial ever. Come on boys, you can watch it too. I've checked it out - no trigger warnings necessary.

And in related news - The Economist tells us How science got women wrong

Why the view that women are gentle, caring and empathetic, whereas men are strong, rational and dominant, is misguided

Why you should NEVER ask the internet to help you photoshop stuff...

I loved this post by Jonathan Jansen - there's no success like failure.

From my reading

"That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the low-grade sins of sloth, envy, gluttony, avarice and I forget the other three."

― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

Thanks for reading. While you're here, you may want to check out my favourite books of 2017